I first met Alda P. Dobbs through SCBWI, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, where I was fortunate enough to be her mentor when the book that would become BAREFOOT DREAMS OF PETRA LUNA won...
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Aug 9th 2021We cannot wait for two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo's (The Tale of Desperaux, Because of Winn-Dixie) latest middle grade novel, THE BEATRYCE PROPHECY! Illustrated...
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This incredible multi-colored book tells the story and history of 75 shades of colors, hues, and dyes. As you read each page you learn the importance of each color and its effects from politics to pop culture.
$13.95
The final installment in Herrera's astonishing narco borderland trilogy to be translated into English by the incomparable Lisa Dillman is an allegorical crime novel that treats a drug kingpin's territory like the realm of some fairytale. A timeless story of love trying to survive in a lawless land from one of Mexico's finest novelists.
KINGDOM CONS is our #BrazosBest for July 2017. Read our staff chat about it here.
This brief essay by the inimitable essayist Mary Ruefle is a profound and witty meditation on the imagination. Invoking history, the Bible, and an unmistakeable wit, Ruefle explains why the imagination is so valuable.
Ruby writes with her signature genre-mixing style to create a tale that's part ghost story, part historical, and completely compelling! Watching Frankie grow from an abandoned young girl to a fierce woman is a pleasure, and witnessing the hidden lives of Depression-era Chicagoans through the eyes of a ghost is intimate and magical.
This is far and away the best book I've read all year! We follow Wallace, the only Black student in his biochem grad program, over the course of one weekend as he navigates tense relationships and the racial minefield of academia. Stunning prose that feels expansive and intimate at the same time. 100% a new favorite of all time.
A searing analysis of antisemitism, including the radical argument that veneration of drastic history adds to the dehumanization rather than addressing it. Horn's book is also darkly funny amidst the rage. I can't stop thinking about this book.
Kindred is a great story about a woman caught between two times. She lives a normal life in the modern times until she is spontaneously transported to the Antebellum South. Octavia Butler is an incredible author and this book is my favorite of hers. She gives a commentary on race, culture, and society that is profound to this day.
A detailed nonfiction accouunt of "The Troubles" that reads like a frightening murder mystery.
Quips & Quotes
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people –– the beauty within themselves.
-- Langston Hughes